As a blogger for Fem2pt0, I strive to be honest. As a board member of George Washington Students Against Sexual Assault (GW SASA), I strive to lead by example. But I am also a college student. A college student who thoroughly enjoys going to parties (which, yes, are mostly hosted by men), a college student [...]
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Announcing FemEx Events for the Fall!
Fem2 Community: Check out these great events being run by our friends over at FemEx. Be sure to reach out to them for more information, and spread the word to your friends! You are invited to join us for the 6th session of FemEx– a course designed for women by women to create a safe environment where women [...]
All Wars Are Intimate Wars
All wars are intimate. For women whose bodies have become battlegrounds in the struggle for reproductive freedom, the intimacy is profound. In the U.S. where the rise of the fundamentalist right has resulted in extensive attempts at creative new restrictions on women’s rights to Moscow, where an American style anti-choice movement has emerged, the struggle [...]
What Is Your Beauty Worth to You?
Oh, beauty industry. Every time I interact with you, it’s because you’ve developed some new and exciting product that will supposedly revolutionize my life. Usually by solving a problem that I didn’t know existed. This week, I heard about the eyelash thickener Latisse when I saw an ad at the optometrist. The next day, I [...]
Five Things To Know About New Birth Control Availability
Good news for liberated ladies! Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enacted new guidelines to provide a variety of free preventive services to women, effective on plan years starting on or after August 1, 2012. These reforms stem from the hotly contested Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. One [...]
The Ultimate Preventative Medication
I started taking birth control pills five years before I actually had sex. No, my parents were not worried I would become a teenage mom. 16 and Pregnant wasn’t even a shadow of a dream then. My birth control prescription was mandated by the government. At the time, I was on a medication that included [...]
Can milk save men from the PMS monster?
We’ve all seen commercials that made us want to *not* buy a product. For men like myself, that might be the effect of a new “Got Milk?” campaign aiming to convince men that milk can reduce the symptoms of PMS. The campaign is centered around the micro-site everythingidoiswrong.com, which features a few basic flash graphics [...]
Would You Recognize the Devil if He Came to Your Door?
What if he brought flowers? Heart-shaped candy? Compliments and promises of eternal love? I have been working on the correctional side of the criminal justice field for the last twelve years. In this time, I’ve worked at a maximum security prison and counseled high-risk sex offenders. I currently work with batterers – men convicted of [...]
Take Back the Day: Should Fem2pt0 CoSponsor SlutWalk DC?
There is something about a large group of women marching down a busy, public street in the light of day that forces us to confront false ideas about sexual assault. All the better if a lot of the women are half-naked. There are no hoards of men chasing after them due to their lack of [...]
Today’s News on Women: Healthcare, Paychecks, and Budgets
It’s only Wednesday, and it’s already been a rough news week for women. Several research studies were released about the acute health problems faced by poorer women: According to Time, the abortion rate in the United States dropped for every group between 2000 and 2008 – except poorer women. The rate for these women actually [...]